Yoav Tsafir, director of "Hartzufim," said he did submit scripts to the internal watchdogs of the station.

If a microcontroller does not have an internal watchdog, a similar functionality can be implemented by the use of a timer interrupt or an external device.

A 2009 report by the SEC's internal watchdog called into question the conduct of 21 staff members for work related to Madoff.

At publicly traded companies, no alarm is more piercing than a battle between management and the directors' audit committee, the closest thing to an internal watchdog.

Mr. Funk, an independent internal watchdog, discussed his review in a meeting with members and staff of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee.

In a new report out yesterday, the government's own internal watchdog took a close look at "efforts to quantify the economic effects of counterfeit and pirated goods."

But John Russell, a spokesman for the office, the department's internal watchdog, denied the reports.

At first the nonpartisan General Accounting Office, which is supposed to act as an internal watchdog, seemed determined to pursue the matter.

Overturning the names produced by a formal search process, he appointed a figure linked to the US Republican party to head the Bank's internal watchdog.

Mr. DeLay said he believed the House needed an ethics committee to serve as an internal watchdog.